Public Transport (Conditions of Work) Regulation Order, 2026

L.N. 133 of 2026

EMPLOYMENT AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ACT

(CAP. 452)

Public Transport (Conditions of Work) Regulation Order, 2026

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by article 4(1) of the

Employment and Industrial Relations Act, the Minister responsible for

employment and industrial relations has made the following order:-

(1) The title of this order is the Public Transport

(Conditions of Work) Regulation Order, 2026.

(2) This order shall come into force within two (2) months

from its publication in the Gazette.

(3) The wage regulation provisions established in this order

shall apply to all employees specified hereunder employed in the

conveyance of passengers by motor omnibuses licensed to ply for hire

on public service routes, namely

(a)

inspectors;

(b)

drivers;

(c)

conductors;

(d)

ticket sellers; and

(e)

ticket booth attendants

Provided that in the event that there is a collective

agreement applicable to the class of employees covered by this order,

the more favourable conditions in such agreement or in this order shall

prevail.

In this order, unless the context otherwise requires

"Act" means the Employment and Industrial Relations Act;

"collective agreement" shall have the same meaning as

assigned to it in the Act;

"customary holidays" means the days, other than Sundays,

declared to be public holidays in accordance with the National

Holidays and other Public Holidays Act;

"day" means a period of twenty-four (24) consecutive hours

commencing from midnight (12:00a.m.) of one day to midnight

(12:00a.m.) of the next following day;

"Director" shall have the same meaning as assigned to it in

the Act;

"double time" means double the actual time rate applicable

to the employee;

"hours of work" shall have the same meaning as assigned to

it in the Act;

"normal time" means one time the actual time rate

applicable to the employee;

"part-time employee" shall have the same meaning as

assigned to it in the Act;

"period of employment" shall have the same meaning as

assigned to it in the Act;

" rest period" shall have the same meaning as assigned to it

in the Organisation of Working Time Regulations;

"time and a half" means one and a half time the actual time

rate applicable to the employee;

"wages" means remuneration or earnings, payable by an

employer to an employee and includes any bonus payable under

article 23 of the Act, other than any bonus or allowance related

to performance or production;

"week" means a calendar week;

"whole-time employee" shall have the same meaning as

assigned to it in the Act.

The minimum weekly wage shall be related to a week of Hours of work.

not more than forty-eight (48) hours.

The minimum weekly wage payable to whole-time Minimum

employees shall be two hundred and seventy-five euro and thirty-three weekly

whole-time

cents (€275.33).

employees.

(1) When the employee is required by the employer to

wear a uniform in the performance of the employee’s duties, such

uniform shall be provided by the employer free of charge.

(2) Personal protective equipment according to the Minimum

Requirements for the Use of Personal Protective Equipment at Work

Regulations shall also be provided by the employer free of charge.

All employees shall be entitled to a weekly rest period in

accordance with the Organisation of Working Time Regulations.

(1) Whole-time employees shall be entitled to the

payment of overtime at a rate of time-and-a-half for all time worked in

excess of an aggregate of forty-eight (48) hours in any one week of six

(6) days, or subject to the written authorisation of the Director, for all

time worked in excess of an aggregate of ninety-six (96) hours

calculated over a period of two (2) consecutive weeks of six (6) days

each.

(2) Whole-time employees shall be entitled to payment of

overtime at double time for all hours worked on the weekly day of rest.

The employee shall be entitled to annual leave in

accordance with the Organisation of Working Time Regulations.

(1) A whole-time employee shall in every calendar year

be entitled to the equivalent in hours of twelve (12) days sick leave on

full pay, less an amount equal to the sum established for sickness

benefit entitlement at the rate determined in accordance with the

Social Security Act, and part-time employees shall have a pro rata

entitlement to sick leave in hours on full pay, less an amount equal to

the sum set for sickness benefit entitlement at the rate determined in

accordance with the Social Security Act, which amount shall also be

calculated on a pro rata basis

Provided that

(a) the first three (3) days of any claim for sick leave

shall be paid in full by the employer;

(b) a medical certificate covering the period of absence is

produced to the employer on the day of return to work or, if such

period of absence exceeds seven (7) days, within seven (7) days

of the commencement of such absence due to sick leave;

(c) employees receiving a social security pension in

respect of retirement or widowhood in accordance with the

Social Security Act shall, for the purpose of calculating the sick

leave payment due, be deemed to have received an amount equal

to the sum established for sickness benefit entitlement at the rate

determined in accordance with the Social Security Act.

(2) Sick leave entitlements shall apply from the first (1) day of

employment

Provided that the said entitlements shall be calculated pro

rata in accordance with the date of employment in the relative

calendar year.

(3) The employer may require a medical certificate by a

physician of his choice to certify that the employee was unfit for work

during the period of absence due to sick leave.

(4) The sick leave entitlement shall be calculated on the basis

provided for annual leave as specified in regulation 8(1) of the

Organisation of Working Time Regulations.

An employee shall be entitled to the payment of the Waiting time.

minimum wage applicable to him for all time during which he is

present on the premises of his employer or in any other place in

connection with his employment unless he is present thereon in any of

the following circumstances

(a)

without the employer’s express or implied consent;

(b) for some purpose unrelated to his work, other than

that of waiting for work to be assigned to him;

(c)

solely due to the fact that he is resident thereon;

(d) during customary breaks for meals and rest, and he is

not waiting for any work to be assigned to him.

Employees shall be entitled to the national holidays and to Other forms of

all public holidays with full pay, to all forms of leave according to the leave.

Minimum Special Leave Entitlement Regulations and all other forms

of leave that may, from time to time, be stipulated in the National

Standard Orders or any regulations made under the Act.

The Public Transport Wages Council Order and the Public Repeal and

Transport Wages Council Wage Regulation Order are hereby repealed saving.

without prejudice to anything done or omitted to be done thereunder. S.L. 452.35.

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